Word: meridionale
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Between 1912 and 1920, De Chirico produced a series of images?his pittura metafisica, or metaphysical painting?that altered the history of modernism. His empty colonnades and squares, populated by statues and shadows, exerted a vast influence on the growth of a specifically surrealist art. Max Ernst, René Magritte and...
Expansion of Fact. Nearly everybody aboard who could write seems to have kept some sort of journal, scribbling away in the meridional heat like diary-addicted schoolgirls. Patiently, Blunden has stitched and embroidered it all together-Endeavor's, wreck on the Great Barrier Reef, refitting at Charco Harbour (socalled...
One autumn afternoon Columbus' crews saw the last of the Canary Islands disappear. "By nightfall . . . the three ships had an uncharted ocean to themselves." How did Columbus know where he was on that sea? "The Admiral liked to pose as an expert in celestial navigation. . . . Yet the testimony of...
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